Ferdinand Fromm

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Ferdinand Ludwig Fromm (born March 31, 1857 in Unterkochen ; † April 4, 1941 in Heilbronn ) was a Württemberg officer . He has written several writings on military topics as well as smaller local and folkloric articles.

Life

He was the son of a businessman and, after high school and cadet school, joined the 124th Infantry Regiment as an ensign in 1875 , where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1877. By 1903 he rose to major. In 1909 he retired from active military service and was first commander of the Ehingen rural district and then the Heilbronn rural district within the reserve army. In Heilbronn he bought a house at Lerchenstrasse 6 and was granted citizenship in 1913. In the First World War he returned to active military service, from which he was retired as a colonel in 1919. He then joined the Württemberg Citizens' Party , whose local chair in Heilbronn he held from 1922 to 1925.

He was the author of the history of the infantry regiment King Wilhelm I (6th Württ.) No. 124 published in 1901 . After being transferred to the reserve army, he took part in the folklore collections of Karl Bohnenberger , who put together folk songs and idioms for folklore writings. When he moved to Heilbronn, Fromm joined the Heilbronn Historical Society , where he gave his first lecture in 1913. On the day of the assassination attempt in Sarajevo (June 28, 1914), Fromm led an excursion by the association to the battlefield of the Austro-Prussian War in Tauberbischofsheim in 1866 . During the war, Fromm was in the field, but continued to deal with folklore collections and was also elected to the committee of the historical association in 1916. After the end of the war, Fromm published two monographs on the Württemberg Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 120 and the Württemberg Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 126 during the war. Until 1932 he held a few folkloric and local history lectures and also published several small papers, especially in the series cultural history sketches from Württemberg in the journal Schwäbische Heimat . Until 1937 he was a member of the committee of the historical association before he asked for his exemption for reasons of age.

Fonts (selection)

  • History of the infantry regiment King Wilhelm I (6th Württ.) No. 124.Wingarten 1901
  • The Württemberg Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 120 in World War 1914–1918. Stuttgart 1920
  • The Württemberg Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 126 in World War 1914–1918. Stuttgart 1921
  • From the life of the people and soldiers in Württemberg 90 years ago. In: Swabian homeland. Volume 21, 1926, Issue 1/3, pp. 2-10.
  • Of castles and city fortifications. In: Swabian homeland. Volume 21, 1926, issue 1/3, p. 22f.
  • Administration of justice in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Swabian homeland. Volume 22, 1927, Issue 3/5, pp. 11-17.
  • From folk song for 200 years. In: Swabian homeland. Volume 24, 1929, Issue 7, pp. 54-60.
  • My memories of Graf Zeppelin. In: Württemberg. Volume 2, 1930, pp. 133-142.
  • Belief in the dead and cult in the Ukraine and on the Don. In: Oberdeutsche Zeitschrift für Volkskunde. Volume 6, 1932, pp. 45f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Place of death after entry on Ferdinand Ludwig Fromm in the personal database of the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography

literature

  • Gerhard Prinz: Ferdinand Fromm (1857–1941): A committed member of the Heilbronn Historical Society and his memoirs. In: Heilbronnica 5. Contributions to the city and regional history (= sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn 20). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2013, ISBN 978-3-940646-12-5 , pp. 213-237 ( PDF; 795 kB ).
personal data
SURNAME Fromm, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fromm, Ferdinand Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wuerttemberg officer, author of military history and local history
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Undercooking
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1941
Place of death Heilbronn